Racism

“Making Monitoring Work�

Standards and Stadardised Framework for Monitoring Racist Incidents Presentation to Dublin City Joint Policing Committee 30th May 2011

Catherine Lynch ENAR Ireland

About ENAR Ireland

We are a national network of organisations working collectively to highlight and address racism at a local, national, European and international level.

We are the Irish Coordination for the European Network Against Racism, a network of 700 NGOs across the European Union.

Overview

Context – racism and anti-racism Why Monitor racist incidents?

ENAR Ireland Response – standard framework Progress to date – overview of pilot Next steps and reflection Informed by ENAR Shadow Report and Report on Racist Violence and Crime, mapping exercise, consultation and practice.

Key issues - General

Current context – recession, risk factors Evidence of racism, e.g. EU FRA and TUI research Pervasiveness of racism and inequality Change in infrastructure – impetus for developing work in this area

Overarching Issues – Europe 1. Global economic crisis 2. Acknowledgment and Data collection 3. Implementation of legislation 4. Incidents: reports and investigations 5. Racism and the political arena: Far

right parties and extremism

Snapshot comparison Issue

Europe

Ireland

Economic Crisis

Risk factor for increase in racism

Risk factor.

Budget cuts.

Racism in the political Rise of far right. arena Racist discourse from mainstream

Context different. Issue more invisibility as economic issues press

Racist violence and crime

On the increase

Concern re. increase and under-reporting

Implementation of legislation including EU ‘Race’ Directive

Some improvement Previously ‘Champion’ and evidence of impact – but budget cuts significant.

Multiple Discrimination/ Intersectionality

Evidence but limited capacity to respond

Evidence, challenges to respond also acknowledged

Roma and Travellers

Target

Target.

Manifestations of Racism/legislative framework

Racist violence and crime Discrimination in goods and services Discrimination in employment Individual and institutional

Why report and record racism Evidence base for policy and practice responses – giving direction Provides information both on extent of racism and problem areas inc. hotspots Provide redress for people experiencing racism and offer support Many forms of racism are against the law Racism cannot be tolerated.

Principles

Address barriers – access, trust, confidence, action Standards and standardised The system, is built on principles of: Anti-racism and protection Independence Access Sustainability Trust Collective and holistic Individual/institutional forms.

Layers -

Recording and evidence base Referral Support Follow up Review and analysis Data collection must have a purpose!

Response – principles to practice Ensure the development of a standard framework for monitoring of racist incidents Comparable and credible information Potential for identifying individual and institutional forms of racism Utilise existing civil society infrastructure

Support organisations to record racist incidents, make appropriate referrals and support individuals Ensure a range of methods to report racism Review, analysis and action.

Broad stakeholder buy-in: towards action, prevention, change

Progress to date

Support from key stakeholders Mapping exercise Consultation Pilot including – Training and agreement Agreement and ‘Roll out’ Review

Data collected about -

Incident Violence and crime Goods and services Employment

‘Victim’ Basis of discrimination Age and gender

Perpetrator (generic) Individual Institution

Action/outcome

Stakeholders/partners include:

People experiencing racism/organisations working with them Data collectors ‘Data users’ Policy/change facilitators

Priorities and next steps

Ensuring access across the country Buy-in from ‘data users’ Looking at how independent/NGO reporting can support official mechanisms Moving forward – change

Conclusion:

Purposeful Data Collection Individual redress – referral, support, outcome, policy/leg change.

We need the evidence – numbers matter. No incident ‘too small’!

Individual and trend/analysis NGOs play a vital role in ensuring reporting of incidents and supporting individuals Racism is criminal: Report it!

Report online – www.enarireland.org Thank you for your attention.

ENAR Ireland 01-8897110 55 Parnell Square West Dublin 1 EnarIreland@gmail.com www.enarireland.org